British History For Dummies
3rd Edition
Published on 4. December 2010
440 pages
978-1-119-99180-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and eventsthat have shaped Britain. Always getting those kings and queensconfused? Never sure what happened when? Then you need this book.Inside you'll find rip-roaring stories of power-mad kings,executions, invasions, high treason, global empire building, andforbidden love -- not bad for a nation of stiff upper lips!
* Revised and expanded to include the historical parliamentaryelections of 2010 and the British mission in Afghanistan
* Accompanied by access to a timeline and 'Who's Who in BritishHistory' section on dummies.com
* This new edition contains an 8-page color insert so you can seewho, what and where the ensuing historical action takes place
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Seán Lang, PhD is the author of the best-selling European History For Dummies. He is a senior university lecturer in history and has been teaching history to school, college, and university students for more than two decades.
Content
Introduction.
Part I: The British Are Coming!
Chapter 1: So Much History, So Little Time.
Chapter 2: Sticks and Stone Age Stuff.
Chapter 3: Woad Rage and Chariots: The Iron Age in Britain.
Part II: Everyone Else Is Coming! The Invaders.
Chapter 4: Ruled Britannia.
Chapter 5: Saxon, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll.
Chapter 6: Have Axe, Will Travel: The Vikings.
Chapter 7: 1066 and All That Followed.
Part III: Who's in Charge Around Here? The MiddleAges.
Chapter 8: England Gets an Empire.
Chapter 9: A Right Royal Time - the Medieval Realms ofBritain.
Chapter 10: Plague, Pox, Poll Tax, and Ploughing - andThen You Die.
Part IV: Rights or Royals? The Tudors and Stuarts.
Chapter 11: Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown.
Chapter 12: A Burning Issue: The Reformation.
Chapter 13: Crown or Commons?
Chapter 14: Old Problems, New Ideas.
Part V: On the Up: The Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies.
Chapter 15: Let's Make a Country.
Chapter 16: Survival of the Richest: The IndustrialRevolution.
Chapter 17: Children of the Revolutions.
Chapter 18: Putting On My Top Hat - The Victorians.
Chapter 19: The Sun Never Sets - But It Don't ShineEither.
Part VI: Don't Look Down: The Twentieth Century.
Chapter 20: The Great War: The End of Innocence - andEverything Else?
Chapter 21: Radio Times.
Chapter 22: TV Times.
Chapter 23: Interesting Times.
Part VII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 24: Ten Top Turning Points.
Chapter 25: Ten Major Documents.
Chapter 26: Ten Things the British Have Given the World (Whetherthe World Wanted Them or Not).
Chapter 27: Ten Great British Places to Visit.
Chapter 28: Ten Britons Who Should Be Better Known.
Index.
